ocrmypdf

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  "homepage_title": "OCRmyPDF documentation \u2014 ocrmypdf 17.7.1 documentation",
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  "one_liner": "Python CLI tool that adds searchable OCR text layers to PDF files using Tesseract.",
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  "why_use_this": "Convert scanned PDFs into text-searchable documents without re-encoding image quality. Useful for archiving paper documents, legal records, or anything you\u0027ve already scanned\u2014ocrmypdf handles multi-page PDFs, preserves layout, and can automatically rotate pages and despeckle. Much faster and more flexible than doing OCR in a GUI tool."
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